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公元前301年,罗马帝国皇帝戴克里先发布了一道命令,为了遏制一件商品的消费而发布了一个令人咋舌的官方定价——274个金法郎才能购买一磅丝绸。这是一个无奈之举,因为自从多年前罗马巨头凯撒穿着丝袍引发全城轰动之后,来自中国的丝绸从这里席卷了太多的财富。当时著名的地理博物学家普林尼抱怨说,罗马每年至少有价值相当于现在2000万美元的黄金,在与印度、中国和阿拉伯半岛的生意中流失,当然,这些黄金中的大多数都换成了丝绸。
In 301 BC, the imperial emperor Diocletian issued a decree that issued a staggering official price of 274 francs to buy a pound of silk in order to curb the consumption of a good. This is a helpless move, since the silk from China swept too much wealth from here, many years after the Roman giants Caesar wore silk gowns to spark a citywide sensation. Pliny the famous geographer at the time complained that Rome had worth at least 20 million U.S. dollars worth of gold each year and was lost in business with India, China and the Arabian Peninsula. Of course, most of these gold went for Become a silk.